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A genus Lathyrus are a sweet peas & vetchlings, flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. There are some 160 coinage of Lathyrus; it is indigen to temperate areas in two hemispheres & their range extends into mountainous area of Africa. There are annual and perennial species which may be climbing or even bushy.

A genus includes a garden sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) and a perennial everlasting pea (Lathyrus latifolius). Flowers on these cultivated mintage can be rose, red, maroon, pink, white, yellowness, purple or even blue & the select few come bicolour; it is as well fragrant, which makes the babies a super popular garden plant. Cultivated mintage come susceptible to fungal infections including downy and powdery mildew.

More coinage come grown for food, including L. sativus and L. cicera, & less usually Fifty. ochrus & L. clymenum. L. tuberosus is grown as a root vegetable for its starchy edible tuber.

A seeds of some Lathyrus metal money contain the toxic amino acid and if eaten inside big quantities might reason lathyrism, a good disease.

Species

Lathyrus aureus (Golden Pea) Lathyrus annuus (Red Fodder Pea) Lathyrus chloranthus Lathyrus japonicus (Sea Pea) Lathyrus latifolius (Everlasting Pea) Lathyrus linifolius (Bitter Vetch) Lathyrus nervosus (Lord Anson's Blue Pea) Lathyrus nissolia (Grass Vetchling) Lathyrus odoratus (Sweet Pea) Lathyrus pratensis (Meadow Vetchling) Lathyrus sativus (Indian Pea) Lathyrus sylvestris (Flat Pea-vine) Lathyrus tingitanus (Tangier Pea) Lathyrus tuberosus (Tuberous Pea)

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